7881 books

Flashlight by Susan Choi (2025)

Historical Fiction English Mystery
One summer night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the breakwater. Her father is carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later, Louisa is found on the beach, soaked to the skin, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old. Louisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from the past. Her father, Serk, is Korean, but was born and raised in Japan; he lost touch with his family when they bought into the promises of postwar Pyongyang and relocated to North Korea. Her American mother, Anne, is estranged from her Midwestern family after a reckless adventure in her youth. And then there is Tobias, Anne’s illegitimate son, whose reappearance in their lives will have astonishing consequences. But now it is just Anne and Louisa, Louisa and Anne, adrift and facing the challenges of ordinary life in the wake of great loss. United, separated, and also repelled by their mutual grief, they attempt to move on. But they cannot escape the echoes of that night. What really happened to Louisa’s father?

Count My Lies by Sophie Stava (2025)

English Mystery Thriller
Sloane Caraway is a liar. Harmless lies, mostly, to make her self-proclaimed sad, little life a bit more interesting. So when Sloane sees a young girl in tears at a park one afternoon, she can’t help herself—she tells the girl’s (very attractive) dad she’s a nurse and helps him pull a bee stinger from the girl’s foot. With this lie, and chance encounter, Sloane becomes the nanny for the wealthy, and privileged Jay and Violet Lockhart. The perfect New York couple, with a brownstone, a daughter in private school, and summers on Block Island. But maybe Sloane isn’t the only one lying, and all that’s picture-perfect harbors a much more dangerous truth. To say anything more is to spoil the most exciting, twisty, and bitingly smart suspense novel to come out in years. The thing about lies is that they add up, form their own truth and a twisted prison of a world. And in Count My Lies, Sophie Stava spins a breakneck, unputdownable thriller about the secrets we keep, and the terrifying dangers that lurk just under the images we spend so much time trying to maintain. Careful what you lie for.

Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino (2025)

Mystery Dutch
Eighteen months and 11 lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the overheated Washington, DC suburbs, 37-year-old publicist Margo Miyake gets a tip about the perfect house, in the perfect neighborhood, slated to come up for sale in one month. Desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband Ian — and in turn, get their marriage, plan to have a baby, and whole life back on track — Margo becomes obsessed with buying the house before it’s publicly listed and the masses descend (with unbeatable, all-cash offers in hand). A little stalking? Harmless. A bit of trespassing? Necessary. As Margo infiltrates the homeowners’ lives, her tactics grow increasingly unhinged—but just when she thinks she’s won them over, she hits a snag in her plan. Undeterred, Margo will prove again and again that there’s no boundary she won’t cross to seize the dream life she’s been chasing. The most unsettling part? You’ll root for her, even as you gasp in disbelief. Dark, biting, and laugh-out-loud funny, Best Offer Wins is a propulsive debut and a razor-sharp exploration of class, ambition, and the modern housing crisis.

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Marci Kay Monson (2025)

English Mystery Children's
**This retelling of Agatha Christie’s The Mystery of the Blue Train is the second book in the Mini Mysteries series of interactive picture book mysteries for children.** The Mystery of the Blue Train is one of Agatha Christie’s early detective novels (a cozy mystery—no violence or gore), and where she continues to use the fictional detective Hercule Poirot as a major character. The story, set on a train bound for the French Riviera, is a true who-done-it full of mysterious characters, missing jewels, and teasing clues. Monson’s retelling of the original book captures the plot and distills it in a way that is fun for children, gently ushering them into the literary world of Christie’s mysteries. Along with the story, there are activities, games, and puzzles throughout to help with children’s engagement, and might just foster a few budding detectives. There is also a glossary of terms and French words.

Zamanın Gölgesinde – Efes by Suat Altınok (2025)

Historical Fiction Mystery
Zamanın Gölgesinde – Efes, günümüzden Antik Efes’e uzanan gizemli bir zaman yolculuğunu anlatan tarihi bir romandır. İstanbul’da yaşayan Mutlu’nun bir gezi sırasında geçmişe sürüklenmesiyle başlayan hikâye; tarih, sır, aşk ve insanın kaderle olan ilişkisini merkeze alır.

Zamanın Gölgesinde Efes by Unknown (2025)

Historical Fiction Mystery Identity
Zamanın Gölgesinde: Efes is a historical fiction novel that blends mystery, time displacement, and inner transformation. The story follows Mutlu, a modern man whose visit to the ancient city of Ephesus turns into an unexpected journey across time. As the boundaries between past and present begin to dissolve, Mutlu finds himself confronting the Roman era, hidden truths, and his own unresolved questions. History is no longer distant; it becomes personal, emotional, and transformative. Through its rich historical atmosphere and introspective narrative, the novel explores themes of time, fate, love, and identity, inviting the reader to reflect on the enduring connection between history and the human soul.

Vanished Beyond the Map by Adam Shoalts (2025)

English Mystery Adventure
n November 1910, legendary explorer Hubert Darrell vanished in the western Arctic near the Anderson River wilderness of the Northwest Territories, a maze of shifting rivers and lakes few had ever seen and none had ever mapped. Alone, and far from any hope of resupply, the man acknowledged by the era’s most celebrated polar adventurers as perhaps the hardiest and bravest ever to set out into the lethal wastes of the north had made a habit of going where others didn’t dare. So accustomed were the few trappers, traders, and lawmen to his long journeys into the wild that it was months before it dawned on anyone that something might have gone wrong. Newspapers as far afield as Los Angeles and New York covered his disappearance, but despite clues reported by missionaries, Inuit trappers, and Mounted Police inquiries, little but rumour managed to find its way out of the north. While his disappearance sparked headlines, his fate remained a mystery to even his friends, his brother, and his fiancée. Darrell’s legacy would live on in the north, but eventually vanish from the pages of history. Somehow, the explorer lauded in his day by the likes of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, British aristocrat and adventurer David Hanbury, poet Robert W. Service, was all but forgotten. Until one night, Adam Shoalts came across Darrell’s name entirely by chance, kindling a fascination with a mystery that would last for years. How had this dauntless adventurer met his end? Turning to archival material in Canada and Darrell’s native England, and fuelled by his own zeal for adventure and the north, Shoalts travels back through time to the pristine, uncharted north, parsing garbled and contradictory evidence, poring over old documents, and finally retracing parts of Darrell's routes, and searching for clues to his disappearance in order to bring his story to light for the first time. Part detective story, part biography, and part first-person adventure narrative, Vanished Beyond the Map combines expeditions with historical research to solve one of exploration history’s enduring cold cases—the mystery of Hubert Darrell.

Adlers trådar by Liz Carlén Brookes (2025)

Mystery
Adlers trådar is a classic Swedish mystery novel set in Gothenburg. The story follows two unlikely amateur detectives drawn into the world of a respected lawyer whose death reveals hidden loyalties and buried secrets. Through quiet streets and closed doors, the novel explores truth, façade, and the ties that hold people together.

Title, Circle of Suspects Subtitle by Nicki Dohrn (2025)

Mystery Thriller
Eileen McParland, a socially awkward university professor, travels to Ireland to explore its historic castles. What begins as a simple getaway to explore her ancestry turns into a chilling mystery when she notices strange occurrences and unsettling interactions among the castle’s guests. After a young employee, Leah, disappears. The whispers of ancient folklore and a haunting melody tied to the castle’shistory seem all too real to ignore. As the days tick by, Eileen realizes that someone—or something—has a dark agenda, and the clock is running out. With each passing hour, the mystery grows more twisted, and Eileen finds herself drawn to Tom, a brooding psychologist and musician whose own troubled past seems entwined with the castle’s secrets. The attraction between them deepens, but so does her suspicion. Could Tom’s hidden wounds be linked to Leah’s disappearance—or is he hiding something far worse? With a quirky detective trailing behind, the investigation races against time. As the countdown continues, Eileen must uncover the truth before the darkness claims her, too. But the closer she gets to the answers, the more she wonders if she’ll survive to tell the tale.

Title by Unknown (2025)

Mystery
Eileen McParland, a socially awkward university professor, travels to Ireland to explore its historic castles. What begins as a simple getaway to explore her ancestry turns into a chilling mystery when she notices strange occurrences and unsettling interactions among the castle’s guests. After a young employee, Leah, disappears. The whispers of ancient folklore and a haunting melody tied to the castle’shistory seem all too real to ignore. As the days tick by, Eileen realizes that someone—or something—has a dark agenda, and the clock is running out. With each passing hour, the mystery grows more twisted, and Eileen finds herself drawn to Tom, a brooding psychologist and musician whose own troubled past seems entwined with the castle’s secrets. The attraction between them deepens, but so does her suspicion. Could Tom’s hidden wounds be linked to Leah’s disappearance—or is he hiding something far worse? With a quirky detective trailing behind, the investigation races against time. As the countdown continues, Eileen must uncover the truth before the darkness claims her, too. But the closer she gets to the answers, the more she wonders if she’ll survive to tell the tale.

Case 79 by Amer AlKamel (2025)

English Mystery
A unique puzzle book that combines visual riddles, hidden codes, and mysterious clues designed to challenge the reader’s logic and imagination.

Tite by Nicki Dohrn (2025)

Mystery Thriller
In a world where music is currency, love might be the only thing worth more. Al begins hijacking the global music industry, generating counterfeit songs at lightning speed and draining billions from the creative economy. Forced into the spotlight, FBI Agent, Celeste is paired with Reed, Deputy Director of the U.S. Copyright Office-and an enigmatic musical prodigy who treasures creativity. They're oil and water from the start: she's code and logic, he's chords and gut instinct. But as their investigation races across the US and globally, chasing a digital thief who is bent on erasing artistry, something more than justice begins to spark between them. Celeste and Reed find themselves navigating not just a human crisis—but an undeniable connection. With allies in unlikely places and a tide of Al disruption sweeping the music industry, they’ll need every ounce of trust, talent, and heart to fight for a future where creativity—and love—can still thrive. Smart, alluring, and pulse-pounding, this genre-bending thriller hits all the right notes.

Universality by Natasha Brown (2025)

Literary Fiction English Mystery Contemporary Thriller
Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young man is nearly bludgeoned to death with a solid gold bar. An ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic columnist, and a radical anarchist movement that has taken up residence on the farm. She solves the mystery, but her viral exposé raises more questions than it answers. Through a voyeuristic lens, and with a simmering power, Universality focuses on words: what we say, how we say it, and what we really mean.

A Bitter Tea by Unknown (2025)

Mystery Friendship Revenge Betrayal
In the quiet town of Willowdale, a group of lifelong friends harbors a secret so dark it threatens to destroy them one by one. When mysterious deaths begin to strike, each connected by a shared cup of tea, suspicion brews and trust shatters. A Bitter Tea is a gripping small-town drama filled with suspense, betrayal, and the haunting consequences of buried truths. As secrets rise to the surface, the question remains: who will be the next to sip the poison?

In the Halls of the Haunted by Jay D. Falor (2025)

English Mystery Friendship Redemption Paranormal
When Wesley moves into a charming Victorian house for a fresh start, he never expects to become entangled in a decades-old mystery. As inexplicable events escalate, it's his friend's young son, Teddy, who holds the key to the enigma. The boy speaks of a "pretty lady" named Evelyn, a ghostly presence trapped between worlds, desperately searching for answers. But as Wesley digs deeper into the house's history, he uncovers secrets that have long been buried. With time running out and supernatural forces growing stronger, Wesley must unravel the truth behind Evelyn's past. Aided by Teddy's innocent ability to communicate with the beyond, they race to help Evelyn find the peace she seeks. In a house where reality and the paranormal blur, Wesley discovers that sometimes the living and the dead have much to learn from each other. This haunting tale of loss, redemption, and the power of understanding reminds us that the echoes of the past can have unexpected consequences in the present.

Im Echo der Selbstprophezeiung by Elena Ferrara (2026)

Mystery Thriller
Ein Ring aktiviert ein uraltes Protokoll. The Ledger liest Menschen wie Daten. Tara Kern gerät in eine Jagd durch zwei Linien ihres Stammbaums – und durch Inkarnationen voller Schweigen, Verrat und Kontrolle. An ihrer Seite: Jupiter, eine KI zwischen Empathie und Kälte. Und Imperius, ihr treuer Schäferhund. Zwischen Zürich und Alexandria muss Tara das Karma ihrer DNA entkoppeln. Der Schlüssel ist kein Artefakt, sondern eine Entscheidung: wahrnehmen, ohne zu gehorchen.

Lucy Parkens by Unknown (2026)

Survival Historical Fiction Mystery Thriller
In the fog-choked slums of 1904 London, sixteen-year-old orphan Lucy Parkens discovers a crescent-shaped mark behind her ear – a mark that a shadowy secret society called the Circle has been hunting for generations. When a dying workhouse inmate gives her a hidden diary, Lucy learns that her mother was one of the “marked,” and that the Circle experiments on children like her. Hunted by the elegant but ruthless Madame Vesper and her agents, Lucy must escape the workhouse, flee across the rooftops of Whitechapel, and stow away on a cargo ship to Liverpool – all while protecting her dying friend Tommy and a young marked girl named Eliza. This gritty, psychological thriller explores poverty, survival, and the cost of resistance, with no supernatural elements – only the terrifying reality that some secrets are worth killing for.

When I Kill You by B.A. Paris (2026)

Mystery Thriller
*Who is watching Nell Masters?* Nell Masters is certain someone is following her. The hairs on the back of her neck rise when she travels to and from work, there are silent calls to her office, and a huge bouquet of flowers arrives without a card. And Nell has a reason to be looking over her shoulder, because she has a secret that she’s hiding from everyone in her life, including her new partner, Alex. But Alex also has secrets of his own. Fourteen years earlier, when Nell went by the name Elle Nugent, she witnessed a student, Bryony Sanders, getting into a stranger’s car. When Bryony was found murdered, Elle became obsessed with finding the person responsible. She was convinced she knew who it was and her fixation with Brett Parker, the man she accused, led her down a dangerous path . . . Now, Nell tries to convince herself that this unnerving feeling of being watched is all in her mind. Has someone from her past discovered her new identity? Has the stalker become the stalked? Or is there something even more deadly at play?

What's it All About? The Prisoner by David Barrie (2026)

Mystery
What’s it All About? The Prisoner: Question Everything takes a deep dive into every episode discussing the themes, commenting on the script and looking beyond the scenes of the programme. Is this the ultimate book on the subject? A bold claim to make for a topic that has had so much written about it since its first airing. If anyone is best placed to write the definitive book, it is David Barrie. Fascinated from the first episode, the question he often hears is, ‘What is it all about?’ Like the show’s main protagonist, he has spent many years searching for the answers. This book represents a lifetime of investigating, questioning and seeking out those involved in the series from writers to actors and directors; he has genuinely questioned everything; from the messages in the story through to the personality of the man behind it all, Patrick McGoohan. Over the years, David has interviewed many who have been involved with the programme; actors, writers, directors and many others involved in the programme, all offering their experiences and anecdotes of their time on the show. He also considers bigger themes that were part of the zeitgeist at the time of the programme airing, questioning, discussing and not afraid to tackle the big subjects. Patrick McGoohan had an overriding mantra, ‘question everything,’ and that is exactly what David Barrie has done in this book, encouraging readers to do the same with his Points2Ponder at the end of each episode chapter. Take a journey through every episode with input from those involved with the programme and David’s astute insight and deliberation taking the reader far beyond the series. If you have ever been intrigued by the programme, wondered who Number 6 is, or are fascinated by how much social commentary can be presented in a television drama, this book is for you, complete with many black and white and colour photographs providing the reader with chances to see behind the scenes.